This article was co-authored by Alexandru Firus We don’t really expect the natural resource of gold to be a problem  for good governance in Europe. But it might be one in the light of the latest developments in an ambitious gold mining  project in one of the newer member states […]

“What we may be witnessing is […] the end of history as such: that is […] the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” Decades after its publication, Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation of the unabashed triumph of democracy still produces uproar among readers and commentators. In […]

The European Union is big. When it comes to electricity, it consumes almost 3 billion MWh/ year, less than China and Russia, yet far more than any other country in the world. But is it really clever? Despite its fundamental flaw – which is that it cannot be stored easily […]

Population drift to the West is a common thing for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as the opening of the labor market now offers people more job opportunities in the West. Different countries address this problem in their own ways. Western Europeans have developed a fear of new […]

“Resource Curse” term is usually used for the countries that have plenty of resources. But what a country has to do without any of them? Hungary is an example of the other side of the resource curse.